Spyware Warrior

suzi · Last edited by suzi on Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:01 pm; edited 3 times in total

This is a duplicate of my blog post here:

http://www.netrn.net/archives2/000641.html

I did a a google search for spyware warrior tonight and found that a rogue company, PAL Solutions Ltd., http://www2.palsol.com is using the Spyware Warrior name in its ads.

Screenhot can be seen here:
http://spywarewarrior.com/googleadsw.JPG

Here's a copy of the complaint I sent to google:

wawadave · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject:

this is really low may be why they spamed the site with pal crapware last week
they need to be sued!!! one of the first two links comes up 404 and the last google link to complain don,t work
Evil or Very Mad

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suzi · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject:

The google complaint link works for me Dave. Try it again a bit later.

When I clicked on PalSol's site earlier, I got page not found too. But they are still there. The domain is in IE-SPYAD too.
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wawadave · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

nope google complaint link dead in ff.
might be that something is stopping me.
if you need to sue i had a few hundered saved twords upgradeing my 800mhz cpu to a faster mobo cpu. was not but 1/2 way there.but i,ll scrap this and pitch it in if needed and hope i don,t get stuck.
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suzi · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks Dave for your offer - but I don't think I'll need to sue. I think google will take care of it. The google link might not work in Firefox because it's using a script I think. It works fine in IE and in mozilla.
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sadiebee · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:25 am Post subject:

I'm not one hundred percent certain where you stand on this one.As I understand it,they've called their "product" (ahem) "Spyware Warrior".

Unless you've patented the named "Spyware Warrior",this might well prove to be one of those infuriating situations you can do nothing about.

suzi · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:48 am Post subject:

The product is actually Pal Spyware Remover - if you click the ad, that's where it goes. That affiliate is using "Spyware Warrior" in the add to attract the google hits I think.
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sadiebee · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:47 am Post subject:

That's good,then!

Bust 'em!

ROBOCOP · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject:

g,day all,strange,but when i looked on palsol site out of interest,i saw that all of their "products" had got awards for "exellence"!!
how can this possibly be true for such known crapware Shocked

do they really lie and stoop that low Question

just wandering!!! Twisted Evil

Blinn · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject:

Just a general rule, "awards of excellence" can be given out by anyone to anybody for anything Confused

. Same reason people have "Diplomas" from unaccredited schools for a few hundred bucks. Looking good at what you do is much easier than being good at what you do. Check out the sources of these "awards" and see if they're reputable.